Also known as Route 50 or US 50, Highway 50 ran the proverbial coast to coast. It has sometimes been called "The Loneliest Road in America" (for the Nevada portion) and "America's Backbone".

Highway 50 is a US highway, a designation that predates the interstate system by many years. It formerly began in either San Francisco or Oakland, and came through Davis. Subsequently, the area west of West Sacramento was chopped off as redundant with I-80, I-580 and other roads. Now, the beginning is at the I-80 / Business 80 split in West Sacramento. It shares a designation for 5 miles with Bus-80, and then splits off to Carson City, Nevada and through the Midwest and all the way to Ocean City, MD. Route 50 goes through the following states:

Nevada

Utah

Colorado

Kansas

Missouri

Illinois

Indiana

Ohio

West Virginia

Virginia

Washington D.C.

and finally Maryland

On the Davis Wiki's I-80 page, you can see a sign showing the distance to Ocean City, MD. On route50.com, you can see the sign at the other end of Highway 50, showing the distance back to Sacramento, CA.